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4 Killed During Violent Labor Day Weekend In Baltimore City

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Gunshots gripped Baltimore. In the span of a holiday weekend, six people were killed. Now big names in Baltimore are stepping in to stop the violence.

Kai Jackson has more on what the Ravens’ Ray Lewis is doing to help.

The city is reeling from the deadly violence over the holiday weekend. Now some prominent Baltimoreans are trying to help put a stop to it.

Violence over the Labor Day weekend in Baltimore took an enormous toll of families and law enforcement investigating cases.

“People killing each other, robbing each other. It’s mostly drug-related. I see it every day,” said one city resident.

City police say from Saturday to Monday, there were 15 shootings. Ten of them happened on Labor Day. Many of them were unrelated to one another. Police say a total of six people have died and five were hurt by gunfire.

“Homicide detectives are investigating this incident and they’re asking anyone who may have seen anything, heard anything to give them a call,” said Baltimore Police Detective Jeremy Silbert.

“How do we keep flipping the channels as if pain does not exist every second of our lives?” said Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis.

The senseless loss of life has prompted Lewis and local pastor Jamal Bryant to hold a Stop the Violence rally on Tuesday at Empowerment Temple Church in Northwest Baltimore.